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Re: okay - tell

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Robert TorresFeb 4, 2007

it's easier on 'Whose Line' to not give a crap about points when you consider that no one really haggles for their points on 'Whose Line', although insults to the guy behind the desk are very commonplace which is always a joy. I know that the points don't matter on JAM, but it's Nicholas that breaks through it all whenever he makes these inane comments on how someone can actually speak for 'x' amount of seconds and get no points, while someone can just challenge another when there is less time and get all the points, not to mention every time he says that so and so is still in fourth place in that patronizingly condescending tone of his, pretty much saying that all that a person does really amounts to nothing on this program, which of course is a load of rubbish.

the bending of the rules is really what I'm trying to talk about, because the way Nicholas bends rulings goes AGAINST other people who've hardly had a chance to say anything and favors someone else who is a regular or just so happens to be called Kenneth Williams, but then the trend reversed, one of the regulars would be speaking just fine and then out of the blue Nicholas would just steal the subject away and give it to someone that didn't even challenge, sure its funny and does elicit some great moments, but I feel that those moments should really be generated BY THE PANELISTS and not by Nicholas, I mean he's alright, but I just wish he'd stop making all these inane comments that make it seem like he's trying to ride on the coattails of giants and steal the thunder away from the people who really matter, the panelists.

I mean, Nicholas isn't funny, he's not witty, or even all that clever. The man can barely find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight, and he can be really nasty on this program, I mean there have been several occasions when he has actually SCREAMED at the panelists and the audience to SHUT UP, and have been so utterly patronizing to the audience and insulting their intelligence as well any time he has to remind them what the rules are or that they are playing a game or calling them fickle or saying it has nothing to do with them, it has everything to do with them because if it wasn't for the audience, the show wouldn't survive, THEY are the ones that come to listen to all the rubbish they spew week after week, and this is coming from someone that used to always say 'The audience are the final arbiters' and now he's telling them to shut up, yeah that's really professional, alienating the audience like that, yeah that's clever.

what i hate is how pompous and arrogant Nicholas is, especially when he goes completely out of his way to pretty much say that HE is the one responsible for all the comedy on the show, and that's just wrong. like when he says that he sets himself up for it, or that he gives good cues or feed lines, the man couldn't feed lines to a starving teleprompter and wouldn't know comedy if it gave him a lapdance. I listen to JAM for the panelists, NOT the chairman.

Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@...> wrote:

The panellists don't concede to Nicholas because they're too
apologetic or frightened; they do it because there's really nothing to
fight about. Nicholas does a fantastic job of keeping things even in
the game. The rules are set, but they can be bent easily, and just
because he interprets them in one way for one particular circumstance
doesn't mean that he has to do the same thing all the time. That's
part of the game. Logic plays a great role in it, but so does banter
and mishap. JAM might as well be Whose Line is it Anyway for how
little they care about the points, because really, that's not what's
important.

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "bobbyshaddoe3004"
<bobbyshaddoe3004@ ...> wrote:
>
> I remember this one in particular, Peter Jones always had the great
> one-liner, and I loved Kenneth's tantrums, its something that no one
> does nowadays, no one really haggles over things, well they kinda do,
> but for the most part they're too apologetic and too willing to
> kowtow to Nicholas even though he's clearly wrong. but now, being
> wrong or right is hardly a factor in this game considering that in
> spite of Nicholas' claims, logic plays no role in this show.
>

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